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Simone Schuler (née Keßler)

Dipl.-Ing.
Research and Teaching Assistant

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Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control
Universität Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 9
70550 Stuttgart

Contact: 

Office: 3.232
Mail: simone.schuler@ist.uni-stuttgart.de
Phone: +49 711 685 66312


Research interests

  • Design of decentralized/ structured controllers
  • Optimal disturbance attenuation: L1, Hinf, and H2
  • Model reduction
  • Control of large wind turbines (in cooperation with the Endowed Chair of Wind Energy)

Teaching assistance and organizing responsibilities

  • Angewandte Regelung und Optimierung in der Prozessindustrie (WS 2012/13)
  • Robust Control (SS 2009, SS 2010, SS 2012)
  • Convex Optimization (WS 2011/12)
  • Student exchange programs (2007-2010)
  • Proseminar Technische Kybernetik (SS 2007, SS 2008, SS 2010)
  • Regelungstechnik I (WS 2008/09)
  • Praktikum RT I - Torsionsschwinger (SS 2008)
  • Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik (WS 2007/08)
  • Conception of the study programs B.Sc./M.Sc. Technische Kybernetik

Supervised Thesis Projects

  • l1-Optimal Collective Pitch Controller Design for a 5MW Wind Turbine (Studienarbeit 2012)
  • Controller Order Reduction for a 5MW Wind Turbine Considering l1 Performance Objectives (Studienarbeit, 2011)
  • Decentralized Control via Output Feedback - Designing Structured Controllers (Studienarbeit, 2010)
  • Dezentrale Regelung für höherdimensionale Subsysteme mittels Reduktion der Reglerstruktur (Studienarbeit, 2010)
  • Entwurf eines Hinf-Reglers für eine 5MW Windenergieanlage (Studienarbeit, 2009)
  • Wahrscheinlichkeitsbasierte robuste Regelung (Studienarbeit, 2009)
  • linf-Gain Controller Order Reduction for Discrete-Time Systems (Diplomarbeit, 2009)

Publications

Journal Articles

[3]  S. Schuler, D. Schlipf, P. W. Cheng and F. Allgöwer. l1-Optimal Control of Large Wind Turbines.
IEEE Transaction on Control System Technology. Accepted for the special issue 'To tame the wind', 2013.
[2]  D. Zelazo, S. Schuler, and F. Allgöwer. Performance and Design of Cycles in Consensus Networks.
System & Control Letters, vol. 62, no. 1, 2013, pp. 85-96.
[1]  S. Schuler, P. Li, J. Lam and F. Allgöwer. Design of Structured Dynamic Output Feedback Controllers for Interconnected Systems.
International Journal of Control, vol 84, no. 12, 2011, pp.2081-- 2091.

Conference Proceedings

[12]  S. Schuler, D. Zelazo and F. Allgöwer. Robust Design of Sparse Relative Sensing Networks.
Accepted for the European Control Conference, 2013.
[11]  D. Zelazo, S. Schuler, and F. Allgöwer. Cycles and Sparse Design of Consensus Networks.
In Proc. of the 51st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2012, pp. 3808-3813.
[10]  S. Schuler, D. Zelazo and F. Allgöwer. Design of Sparse Relative Sensing Networks.
In Proc. of the 51st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2012, pp. 2749-2754.
[9]  S. Schuler, U. Münz and F. Allgöwer. Decentralized State Feedback Control for Interconnected Process Systems.
Plenary paper. In Proc. of the 8th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (AdChem), 2012, pp. 1-10.
[8]  S. Schuler, C. Ebenbauer and F. Allgöwer. l0-System Gain and l1-Optimal Control.
In Proc. of the 18th IFAC World Congress, 2011, pp. 9230-9235.
[7]  S. Schuler, M. D. Gruhler, U. Münz and F. Allgöwer. Design of Structured Static Output Feedback Controllers.
In Proc. of the 18th IFAC World Congress, 2011, pp.271-276.
[6]  S. Schuler, W. Zhou, U. Münz and F. Allgöwer. Controller Structure Design for Decentralized Control of Higher Order Subsystems.
In Proc. of the 2nd IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys), 2010, pp. 296-274.
[5]  S. Schuler, U. Münz and F. Allgöwer. Optimal Controller Structure Reduction for Decentralized Control.
In Proc. of the 4th IFAC Symposium on System, Structure and Control (SSSC), 2010, pp. 303-308
[4]  O. Ajala, S. Schuler and F. Allgöwer. linf-gain Controller Order Reduction for Discrete-Time Systems.
In Proc. of the American Control Conference (ACC), 2010, pp. 329-334
[3]  D. Schlipf, S. Schuler, P. Grau, F. Allgöwer and M. Kühn. Look-Ahead Cyclic Pitch Control using LIDAR.
In Proc. of the Science of making Torque from Wind (TORQUE), 2010.
[2]  S. Schuler, D. Schlipf, M. Kühn and F. Allgöwer. l1-Optimal Multivariable Pitch Control for Load Reduction on Large Wind Turbines.
In Proc. of the Scientific Track at the European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC), 2010.
[1]  S. Schuler and F. Allgöwer. linf-gain Model Reduction for Discrete-Time Systems via LMIs.
In Proc. of the American Control Conference (ACC) , 2009, pp. 5701-5706.

Theses

[2]  S. Keßler. Observer Design for Nonholonomic Systems.
Diploma Thesis, Sampei Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 2006.
[1]  S. Keßler. Entwurf von gemischt l1/Hinf-optimalen Reglern für diskrete und kontinuierliche Systeme.
Student Thesis, Institut für Systemtheorie und Regelungstechnik, Universität Stuttgart, Germany, 2005.
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